On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 07:44, Teilhard Knight wrote:
> First, I would like to thank all those who answered my post "Sound and
> Video"
> 
> On the video side, I have downloaded the NVIDIA package, but I have not
> installed it because I do not know how to switch off KDE. Could you tell me
> how? And also how to start it again?

In a console window, type:

init 3

X will shut down and you can log in as root, do your nvidia install,
then type:

startx

to get X started again.

> 
> On the sound side, I seem to have a hardware problem. For those who didn't
> read my first post, I have a DVD drive, a CD-RW, and a DVD+RW. Both WinXP
> and Mandrake (9.2) have problems even displaying the contents of the DVD
> drive and the DVD+RW. The CD-RW works fine. This happened after installing
> Mandrake, but I do not know how this can give problems in WinXP. The two
> OS's live in their own partitions, and as far as I know, they do not fiddle
> with each other. I feel this is not a Mandrake issue, but in case you can
> offer me a hand, I'll be grateful.

It's tough to see how mdk could be responsible as you say.  No clue
here.  Sorry

> 
> Teilhard


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